In bestselling author Holly Chamberlin's poignant novel, a mother and
daughter escape to a beautiful coastal town in Maine to find healing in
the wake of heartbreaking loss.
The journey to Yorktide, Maine, was always a happy one for Frieda and
Aaron Braithwaite and their two daughters. Frieda loves her mother's old
farmhouse, and the girls have grown closer there, sharing a bedroom and
spinning stories into the night. But that was before--when tragedy was
something that happened to other families.
Since the car crash that claimed the lives of her husband, and their
younger daughter, Frieda has struggled emotionally and financially.
Bella, now seventeen, is withdrawn and wary, and Frieda fears losing her
too.
At her mother's urging, Frieda decides to return to Yorktide with Bella
for the summer. Bella gets a job in a local shop, and little by little
edges her way back into the world. But it's the unexpected connections
they make--with a former schoolmate, a troubled teenage girl, and
Frieda's estranged father--that will spur them to find healing amid
bittersweet memories, and discover if their bond is strong enough to
guide them back to hope once more.